Burton is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Madison County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Idaho
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.
History
The first settlement at Burton was laid in 1882, by
Robert T. Burton. A branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized locally in 1884 with George Foss as Presiding Elder.
[, Volumes 9-10, 1918, p. 16]
The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine
[Barry Swackhamer, "Burton," *The Historical Marker Database*, October 6, 2019, accessed March 7, 2025]
References
Unincorporated communities in Madison County, Idaho
Unincorporated communities in Idaho
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